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Service Updates
Here’s a list of the Microsoft Azure Service Updates from over the past week:
- Linux support in Azure App Service
- Azure App Service Companion preview
- General availability: Temporal tables in Azure SQL Database
- Mobile Apps .NET SDK 3.0.2 released
- Azure Scheduler updates HTTP/HTTPS job timeout
- API Management service update: October 12, 2016
- Public preview: SOAP pass-through support for Azure API Management
- Cross-partition ORDER BY queries available in DocumentDB Java and Node.js SDKs
- Four integrated services for Microsoft Operations Management Suite now available
- General availability: UltraPerformance Gateway tier for Azure ExpressRoute
- Improving Azure App Service Node.js and PHP developer experience with Linux support
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Top Links
Here are some of the most notable links from the week:
- Microsoft Cloud achieves Gov. of India’s provisional accreditation… in rare company by Alice Rison
- Announcing new support plans and options for Azure Government by Julie Glixon
- Bringing Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Server Stretch Database to the Azure Government database family by Megan Yount
- Azure Images: SQL Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 by Luis Vargas
- Azure Managed Cache and In-Role Cache Service shutdown reminder by Ye Gu
- Azure App Service generally available in Azure Government by Brenda Y Lee
Blog Articles
Here’s a collection of some of the most note worthy blog articles posted over the past week:
- Manage Azure App Service Deployments with Deployment Slots by Chris Pietschmann
- How Azure Functions Pricing Works by Chris Pietschmann
- Top 4 reasons for using Azure Security Center for partner security solutions by Yair Tor
- Creating an end-to-end IoT solution using the Microsoft Azure IoT Starter Kit w/ Adafruit Feather M0 WiFi and Microsoft Azure by Lee Stott
- Creating a Calendar App using PowerApps by CarlosAg
- How can I use Azure AD Domain Services? by markga
- So what can you do with your Microbit and the Azure Cloud? by Lee Stott
- Artifacts and guidance for Azure DevTest Labs by Willy P. Schaub
- Hello Blinky 2.0 with the Raspberry Pi 3 and LCD using Azure by FitGeekGirl
- Event Hubs and .NET Standard by John Taubensee
- Simpler Azure Management Libraries for Java – Beta 3 by Asir Selvasingh
- Deploying to HockeyApp from VSTS by Daniel Meixner
- Manual failover of Azure File storage by devkeydet
- Azure Data Lake U-SQL September 2016 Updates: OUTER UNION, Set operations by name, FILE and PARTITION intrinsic functions and more! by MRys
- Transport Agnostic Cloud to Device Messaging with IoT Hub by YTechie
- Microsoft’s true Hybrid Cloud: consistent, not just connected by Mark Jewett
- Azure Stream Analytics query testing now available in the new portal by Ryan CrawCour
- Deep Neural Network in Azure via Cortana Intelligence and ML Team
- Temporal Tables are generally available in Azure SQL Database by Borko Novakovic
- Simpler Azure Management Libraries for .NET by Asir Selvasingh
- GEP uses Azure and SQL Database to expand global reach by Guy Haycock
- Azure Data Lake Analytics: More Compute and More Control by Omid Mola
- Azure IoT and Arduino – Part1 by Scott Klein
- Microsoft Common Controls Hub provides uncommon convenience by Alice Rison
- Introducing the Team Data Science Process from Microsoft via Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team
- TIBCO DataSynapse comes to the Azure Marketplace by Matthew Thomson
- Experience Updates to the Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics Portal by Saveen Reddy
Events
Here are links to event or about events that were posted over the past week.
- Join us online for Microsoft’s developer event, Connect(); 2016 November 16th–17th 2016 by Lee Stott
- Azure Backup hosts Ask Me Anything session by Trinadh Kotturu
Videos
Here are links to some of the videos that have been posted over the past week:
- Introduction to the Opsgility Cloud Sandbox via Opsgility
- Ramping up Predictive Maintenance using Machine Learning with Val Fontama via Channel 9
- Creating IoT apps for the Xbox via Channel 9
- Episode 216: Azure News Recap with Chris and Haishi October 2016 | Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show via Microsoft Azure Cloud Cover Show
- First Look at the new SQL Server Data Migration Assistant | Data Exposed by Scott Klein
- Tuesdays with Corey: Azure Resiliency, the magic of load balancers | Tuesdays With Corey via Channel 9
- Bots as the Next UX: Expanding Your Apps with Conversation | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 by Matt Winkler
Audio / Podcasts
To complete the collection of different mediums to allow you to consume your Azure news / info in any way you want, here’s a list of the podcasts released this week:
- Episode 148 – Cognitive Services via The Azure Podcast
- Orchestrating and automating deployments with Octopus Deploy and Damian Brady via Hanselminutes
- Distributed Caching with Iqbal Khan via DotNetRocks
- Episode 160 | SharePoint Framework with Microsoft’s Mike Ammerlaan via Microsoft Cloud Show
General Cloud / Related
Here’s some note worthy links about Cloud computing and other related topics that aren’t necessarily specific to Microsoft Azure:
- Blockly Windows 10 IoT by Greg Duncan
- Exploring ASP.NET Core with Docker in both Linux and Windows Containers by Scott Hanselman
- SQL Server 2016 Express Edition in Windows containers by Perry Skountrianos
- Microsoft, The Security Company by Brad Sams
- Getting Started with Windows Containers by Julien Corioland
- Using SSIS to load 1TB data into SQL Server in 30 mins, with simplified settings by DionYe
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